Comments on: Meet the Mollys! Social Network Sweeties Tumbl Upwardshttp://observer.com/2011/08/meet-the-mollys-social-network-sweeties-tumbl-upwards-2/
People and TrendsSat, 12 Aug 2017 10:41:46 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Jacobhttp://observer.com/2011/08/meet-the-mollys-social-network-sweeties-tumbl-upwards-2/#comment-5737
Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:32:00 +0000http://www.observer.com/?p=180772#comment-5737I know the NYO makes a minor specialty of this sort of thing, but this is such cloying, cutesy, mindless drivel. You gchatted with some friends and whipped it together with some half-baked pop cultural analysis. It’s terribly insidery, and while these are all talented writers, their “Mollyness” is perhaps their most annoying feature, appealing only to that subset of Internet readers who live on Tumblr, Gawker, Thought Catalog, etc. Not a insignificant group, perhaps, since many of them do work in media, but also not worth crafting a feature around meant for a mass audience. I like the NYO voice, but this kind of thing just screams, “We think we’re cooler than you.”
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Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:23:00 +0000http://www.observer.com/?p=180772#comment-5736I find it really insulting that you’re trying to make generalizations about these women that don’t quite fit. They’re each unique, successful individuals with their own voices, and by covering them with a blanket of twee coquettishness, you’re making implications about shared commonalities that don’t exist. Shameless self promotion applies to some (but not all) Mollies, and some (but not all) of the internet in general. These women don’t write “as women” and certainly not “as Mollies” — they are no more similar to each other than any one entity writing for the internet is like another. To credit a shared name or gender or age with their success is to diminish the accomplishments of each, and their accomplishments are not that they’ve somehow won over their readers with cute pictures or catch phrases. These are ambitious, smart, talented women. I get that the Molly umbrella is cute, but please do them (and us) the service of considering them as discrete entities or artists instead of trying to figure out a way that they fall under a sort of demeaning “literary lasses” headline.
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